MIssissippi history
The community of Union Church was formed primarily by a group of Scotch settlers who left North Carolina around 1805 for the promise of fertile land to be farmed on the eastern banks of the Mississippi River. The town was originally called Scotch Settlement. The founding families were headed by George Torrey, his son Dougald Torrey, Laughlin Currie and Robert Willis.
Free People of Color in Colonial Natchez (1700-1798)
Chapel of the Cross Church; Madison, Mississippi:
The story of the Chapel of the Cross begins as the story of the Johnstone family of North Carolina. John T. Johnstone and his brothers, William and Samuel, began traveling to the new state of Mississippi in the 1820’s purchasing land. John initially bought 524 acres where the Chapel sits today from Mr. Jonathan Coleman who had a log cabin situated one hundred yards from the present day Chapel. Mr. Johnstone remodeled and enlarged this log cabin and then moved his wife, Margaret, and his daughters, Francis and Helen here in 1841. He named his plantation, Annandale, after his ancestral home in Scotland. The rest of the story HERE.
The story of the Chapel of the Cross begins as the story of the Johnstone family of North Carolina. John T. Johnstone and his brothers, William and Samuel, began traveling to the new state of Mississippi in the 1820’s purchasing land. John initially bought 524 acres where the Chapel sits today from Mr. Jonathan Coleman who had a log cabin situated one hundred yards from the present day Chapel. Mr. Johnstone remodeled and enlarged this log cabin and then moved his wife, Margaret, and his daughters, Francis and Helen here in 1841. He named his plantation, Annandale, after his ancestral home in Scotland. The rest of the story HERE.
May 7, 1840: Natchez Mississippi: 300 Killed in Tornado |
Feb 18, 1861: Jefferson Davis Inaugural described by The Memphis Appeal
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On March 11, 1861, in Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas adopt the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
The constitution resembled the Constitution of the United States, even repeating much of its language, but was actually more comparable to the Articles of Confederation–the initial post-Revolutionary War U.S. constitution–in its delegation of extensive powers to the states. The constitution also contained substantial differences from the U.S. Constitution in its protection of slavery, which was “recognized and protected” in slave states and territories. However, in congruence with U.S. policy since the beginning of the 19th century, the foreign slave trade was prohibited. The constitution provided for six-year terms for the president and vice president, and the president was ineligible for successive terms. Although a presidential item veto was granted, the power of the central Confederate government was sharply limited by its dependence on state consent for the use of any funds and resources. Although Britain and France both briefly considered entering the Civil War on the side of the South, the Confederate States of America, which survived until April 1865, never won foreign recognition as an independent government. 1874: A Matter of Honor in Bay St. Louis |
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DEMOCRATS CHOOSE LEADER JOHN SHARP WILLIAM OF MISSISSIPPI
WILLIAMS URGES PARTY TO ACTION
DEMOCRATIC HOUSE LEADER STIRS ASSOCIATES
Mississippi Congressman Says, "Work Together as a Football Team and Win Important Victories"
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-By agreeing to place in nomination for speaker John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, the Democratic members of the house today, in effect, decided to continue him in tho position of minority leader for the Sixtieth congress. The nomination of Mr. Williams was agreed on in a caucus of Democratic members held in the hall of the house of representatives, beginning at 2 o'clock today. Mr. Williams was absent from the chamber when his election took place, but he was soon afterward escorted to the floor by a committee appointed for that purpose and spoke at some length, thanking his fellow members for the confidence reposed In him and promising to serve them to the best of his ability. He especially urged them to stand together in the support of party principles, saying it was most important at this time that the Democrats should have team work. "We should," he said, "work together as a football team and in so doing we may win important victories In the future." Mr. Hay of Virginia introduced a resolution declaring It to be the sense of the campus that a bill for the revision of the tariff should be immediately Introduced and providing that unless it Is promptly reported by the committee on ways and means, the Democrats should object to all unanimous consent agreements for the passage of bills. In the caucus of the house Republicans tonight, Speaker Cannon was renominated. All the old officers of the house were also renominated. The caucus refused to seat Peter A. Porter of the Thirty-fourth New York district, who was elected as an independent.
WILLIAMS URGES PARTY TO ACTION
DEMOCRATIC HOUSE LEADER STIRS ASSOCIATES
Mississippi Congressman Says, "Work Together as a Football Team and Win Important Victories"
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-By agreeing to place in nomination for speaker John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, the Democratic members of the house today, in effect, decided to continue him in tho position of minority leader for the Sixtieth congress. The nomination of Mr. Williams was agreed on in a caucus of Democratic members held in the hall of the house of representatives, beginning at 2 o'clock today. Mr. Williams was absent from the chamber when his election took place, but he was soon afterward escorted to the floor by a committee appointed for that purpose and spoke at some length, thanking his fellow members for the confidence reposed In him and promising to serve them to the best of his ability. He especially urged them to stand together in the support of party principles, saying it was most important at this time that the Democrats should have team work. "We should," he said, "work together as a football team and in so doing we may win important victories In the future." Mr. Hay of Virginia introduced a resolution declaring It to be the sense of the campus that a bill for the revision of the tariff should be immediately Introduced and providing that unless it Is promptly reported by the committee on ways and means, the Democrats should object to all unanimous consent agreements for the passage of bills. In the caucus of the house Republicans tonight, Speaker Cannon was renominated. All the old officers of the house were also renominated. The caucus refused to seat Peter A. Porter of the Thirty-fourth New York district, who was elected as an independent.
Church Hill is a small unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. It is located on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, approximately 18 miles north of Natchez. The geographic features are different from those in the rest of the state; there are high and steep bluffs throughout. At the center intersection of this small community is an old wooden country store, with the old post office in it which was built around 1837. The store bears the name "Wagner's Grocery" on the upper header of the store. The store was closed in the late 1990s, after which it was donated to the Church Hill historic society for preservation. It is the oldest known all-wooden heart pine country store that had a post office in the southeastern United States.
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Percy Sledge: Rolling Stone Magazine announcing his death at his home in Baton Rouge, La on April 14, 2015: It was in those cotton fields that Sledge began humming and singing a
melody that would circle in his head for many years, eventually getting
fleshed out into a song called "When a Man Loves a Woman." The tune was
the highlight of Sledge's stage show with his early band the Esquire
Combos, though they only only gigged on weekends since Sledge worked
full time as an orderly at an Alabama hospital. ..............................In 1965 the group played a gig at a University of Mississippi frat house. Record producer Quin Ivy was in the audience that night, and he was blown away by the power of "When a Man Loves a Woman." "If you ever think about cutting a record, come on by," Ivy said. "I love that melody.” Sledge took him up on the offer and tracked the song with a killer backing band that included organist Spooner Oldham. The tape got the attention of Atlantic Records producer/executive Jerry Wexler, who released it as Sledge's debut single in April of 1966.
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Allen Cavett Thompson was the Mayor of Jackson, MS for twenty years. When he retired in 1969 he formed a group called FOCUS, which he touted as a supporter of the freedom of choice in America. Using this “freedom of choice,” he and the group protested public dollars being spent on the airing of Sesame Street. Eventually, a Commission was formed in response to this outcry. The Commission on Educational Television dealt with whether Sesame Street should be allowed to air on public television in April of 1970. Ultimately, the five person commission ruled that Sesame Street should be banned. One of the members of the group, likely irate over the decision, leaked the results to the New York Times where it became a major news story at the time. One of the members of the commission, speaking anonymously, stated that “Some of the members of the commission were very much opposed to showing the series because ‘it uses a highly integrated cast of children'” and furthermore, that the main objection was “mainly that we’re not ready for it yet.”
It is important to note that there was no official statement on WHY the Commission ruled the way that they did, and we only have an anonymous member of the group, one almost certainly against the ruling, to rely on for that being the basis of the decision. That said, however the decision was arrived at, it seems like a foolish decision on the face of the matter, whether it was specifically due to the integration issue or not. Cooney released a statement on the decision, stating that it was “a tragedy for both the white and black children of Mississippi.”
Twenty-two days after their original decision, the Commission reversed themselves and Sesame Street was approved in Mississippi, where it has remained ever since.
It is important to note that there was no official statement on WHY the Commission ruled the way that they did, and we only have an anonymous member of the group, one almost certainly against the ruling, to rely on for that being the basis of the decision. That said, however the decision was arrived at, it seems like a foolish decision on the face of the matter, whether it was specifically due to the integration issue or not. Cooney released a statement on the decision, stating that it was “a tragedy for both the white and black children of Mississippi.”
Twenty-two days after their original decision, the Commission reversed themselves and Sesame Street was approved in Mississippi, where it has remained ever since.
May 10, 2014: Z-News Mississippi: Jet Magazine Will Cease Print Publication: The Print Pages Carry a Bold Archive of Past Civil Unrest in Mississippi
The magazine helped to spark the modern civil rights movement when it published gruesome photographs of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black Chicagoan who was kidnapped, mutilated and brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955 |